Chile vs Uruguay: Infant mortality rate

Chile

0.5798 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Uruguay

0.6166 deaths per 100 live births

in 2024

Chile rank

144th

Uruguay rank

141st

Infant mortality rate over time

Chile
Uruguay

How they compare

Uruguay currently reports 0.6166 deaths per 100 live births against 0.5798 deaths per 100 live births in Chile, a difference of 0.0368 deaths per 100 live births.

That makes Uruguay's figure about 1.1 times Chile's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 71 shared years of data; in 1954 it was Chile ahead.

Chile ranks 144th and Uruguay ranks 141st of 199 countries.

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About this data

Indicator: Infant mortality rate
Unit: deaths per 100 live births
Source: United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2025) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 199 places, 13,185 data points, 1931–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

The estimated number of deaths of children aged under one year, per 100 live births .